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DECORATING
P’s
Print out the large letter P pattern and use it to make large
P shapes for your children out of heavy paper. Here are a few
suggestions for how your children could decorate their P’s.
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Use pink and purple markers or paint daubers to make poka-dots. |
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Glue on peanut shells. |
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Glue on colorful poms. |
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Glue on pussywillows. |
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POTATO
PRINTS
Be sure to make P place mats with your children while studying
the letter P. |
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Set out large sheets of construction paper. |
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Have your children either stamp P’s all over a sheet
of paper or cut out capital P’s from magazines and newspapers
and glue them all over their place mat. |
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Cover place mats with clear contact paper, if you want
to reuse them. |
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PUFFY PAINT
Here is a fun puffy paint to make while studying P. |
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Place 2 Tbsp. shampoo, ¼ cup liquid tempera paint
and ¼ cup water into a bowl. |
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Using a hand blender, whip up the mixture into a puffy paint. |
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Let children spoon some puffy paint onto a sheet of finger
painting paper and finger paint. |
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This paint will only stay puffy for 5-10 minutes.
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| ADDITIONAL “P”
ART MATERIALS |
Set your art area up with all P art materials,
such as:
| Paint |
Paper plates |
Pipe cleaners |
| Pasta |
Play dough |
Poms |
| Paste |
Pine cones |
Paper |
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PING
PONG SOCCER
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Place a ping-pong ball in the middle of a small
table. |
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Have one child stand on either side of the table. |
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Now using only their mouths, have them blow towards
the ping-pong ball. |
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The person who blows the ball off the opposite
side of the table, wins. |
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You may want to place a strip of tape across
the middle of the table to show sides. |
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PIE PUZZLES
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Set out four paper plates on a table. |
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Then take four other paper plates and cut one in half,
one in 4 equal sections, one in six sections and one into
8ths. |
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Mix up the cut sections and let your children
take turns placing the pieces onto the four plates, to
create whole pies. |
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Before cutting the 4 plates, you could
decorate them to look like pies if you desire. |
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HOT POTATO
You will need a group of children for this activity.
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Have children sit in a circle on the floor. |
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Hand a clean potato to one child. |
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Play some music. |
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Have children pass the “Hot Potato” |
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Children pass the potato quickly, because no one wants
to be holding the potato when the music stops, because
that child must leave the circle. |
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Turn with your back to the children and turn music
on and off. |
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The last child sitting without the potato, is the winner. |
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P STORIES
Look at the library for stories to read to your children
are about P things or characters, such as; Princes and
Princesses, Parrots, Planes, Policemen, Parties, Pancakes,
Pumpkins.
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P NAMES
Make a list with your children of all the names they can
think of that start with P. Have them each choose a P
names for the day, such as; Patty, Pat, Patsy, Peter,
Paul, Paula. |
P OPPOSITES
Here are some words with P opposites:
War – (Peace)
Flat – (Puffy)
Ugly – (Pretty)
Dull – (Peppy)
Push – (Pull)
Week – (Powerful)
Colorful – (Plain)
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PUMPKIN SEQUENCE
CARDS
These picture cards will help your child to understand sequence,
plus beginning, middle and end.
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Take four plain index cards and draw the
story of growing a pumpkin. |
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On the first card, draw the ground with a small seed
in the dirt. |
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On the second card, draw a small plant with two leaves
growing up out of the dirt. |
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On the third card show a large plant with large green
leaves and yellow flowers. |
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On the fourth card, show a large orange pumpkin growing
where the flower once was. |
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Mix up the cards, and have your children take turns
placing the cards in order to tell the story of how a
pumpkin grows. |
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PICKING UP P’S IN MY PAIL
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Make up some P picture cards, using index
cards. Draw on pictures such as; plums, peaches, peas,
pears, pennies, pancakes, peanuts, peppers, pickles, etc. |
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Place the pictures down on the floor. |
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Walk around the room holding a pail and
have your children take turns picking up a P picture to
sing about. |
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“Picking up ______ and put
‘em in my pail.”
“Picking up _______and put ‘em in my pail.”
“Picking up _______ and put ‘em in my pail”
“Way down yonder in the P picture patch!” |
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P ANIMALS
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Have your children help you think of pets that start
with the letter P, such as; ponies, puppies, parrots,
pigs, parakeets. |
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Then continue the activity by discussing all P animals.
Have children look through animal books to find ones that
start with the P sound, such as; panthers, pandas, polar
bears, porcupines, peacocks, etc. |
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OTHER DISCOVERY PROJECTS FOR P |
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Plan a project of making paper. |
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Learn about the Prairie or Pond life. |
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Investigate Pine trees and pine cones |
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Discover all the wonderful items made from peanuts |
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P PIES
Let your children help you make some P pies, such as, pumpkin,
pecan, peach or pizza.
PARTY P SNACKS
Serve peanuts, pretzels, or popcorn for snacks.
PEANUT BUTTER
Make your own peanut butter by blending peanuts and peanut
oil together in the blender.
COOKING WITH P
Let your children help you make pancakes, pudding or popsicles.
PLAN A P PARTY
Set out paper plates, paper cups, place mats, pickles, party
mix, pizza and punch.
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“P” PARADE
Tune: “Down By The Station” Down by the station
Early in the morning.
See the little P’s
Standing in a row.
See the plates and pillows,
See the puppies and pigs,
See the pumpkins and puppets
The parade is set to go!
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PAT-A-PIE
Tune: “Pat-A-Cake”
Pat-a-pie, pat-a-pie, pastry man
Bake me a pie as fast as you can.
Pat it and poke it and mark it with a P
And put it in the oven for papa and me.
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| THE P
CAFÉ
Tune: “Teddy Bear’s Picnic”
Let’s go down to the P café
And have a bite to eat.
They have lots of P foods
What a special treat!
Pizzas and popcorn
Pretzels and pop
Peanut butter
With pickles on top.
Today’s the day
We go to the P café!
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PURPLE PLANE
Purple, purple, purple plane
Flew in the sunshine, flew in the rain.
Flew over policemen and postmen, too.
Flew over peacocks at the zoo.
Flew over pastures with ponies galore.
Flew over palaces with hundreds of doors.
Flew over pumpkins and potatoes and peas.
Flew over peaches and plums in trees.
Purple, purple, purple plane
Flew in the sunshine and flew in the rain.
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PHOTOGRAPHER
BEAR
Photographer, Photographer, Photographer Bear
Taking perfect pictures, everywhere!
Pictures of animals at the zoo.
Penguins, peacocks and porcupines, too.
Pictures of planes and parachutes.
Pictures of pilots in purple suits.
Pictures of petunias and pansies, too.
Pictures of pines with the morning dew.
Pictures of peaches, plums and pears.
Pictures of pigs and polar bears.
Photographer, Photographer, Photographer Bear
Taking perfect pictures, everywhere!
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